As people may already be aware, foonas-em for ls2s is currently available, however it does have one minor issue in that halt/reboot commands do not work as expected currently. Fixes for this (and proper installation instructions) will be available at foonas.org soon!

In other news, the LS2 is the first platform to gain support for installing an OS via the web interface (foonas, although others will be added!). This is just an initial version (which needs better error checking/reporting throughout the install process) however if people want to test it, great - be wary it will repartition and format your internal hard disk! If you already have installed foonas-em for this platform, they will pop up in the installer interface next time you visit it.

This build features all of the tools contained in the PPC foonas-em firmware, with the exception of the xfs userspace utilities.

The pre-compiled beta at foonas.org has been updated to include linux-2.6.22.3, and it is now possible to reboot or halt from a telnet session or via the web interface (but not via the button, watch this space!).

Edit: Have 2.6.22.10 running locally (with virtually no modification to lnis patch, other than removing the bit that changes the EXTRAVERSION variable which would need modification for every kernel version!). If you pull the patch from foonas.org be wary there is another hack in it so it doesn't need the IDT toolchain, however it makes it OE specific instead.

Also, 2.6.23.1 fails to patch currently due to some stuff being moved around upstream.

The foonas-em binary in the link above has been updated to use 2.6.22.10. Also if anyone who has already installed foonas-em for this platform hits the updater an installer for Openlink 0.52b is also there (I use it for flashing the em firmware to my box in 2.4, again this will repartition and format your hard disk on install).

The only slightly modified patch for the kernel is in svn at foonas.org.

a short question: In the foonas em wiki is written, that flashing the image to mtd can fail, when u-boot / kernel 2.6 is present. Is this and AND or OR logic ? Can the foonas-em binary not flash if u-boot AND kernel 2.6 is present or means that, that the binary can not be flashed from u-boot OR kernel 2.6?

from my understanding flashing does not properly work from within uboot on LS2`s with the wrong flash chip.

also we experienced problems with flashing from within 2.6 kernels to flash.....but this was on the ppc boxes. i have no clue if this is valid on the LS2 as well.

from my understanding flashing could work from the original kernel...but that would only be save if you had installed uboot before and put the decrypted 2.4 kernel into /boot

then the only problem could be that the flash map used inside the stock kernel does not allow installation of foonas-em....foonas-em is installed on the ppc linkstations from within uboot.....thats the unknown factor.

foonas-em was updated for LS2s recently to 0.1.0-r0. flash issue mentioned previously still means that this is listed as unsupported but should be fine for those with the other type. Here are some of the major changes for this platform (repeated from the long foonas thread that is getting difficult to read!):

* USB Storage & VFAT - now you can install from a USB stick formatted in any major OS* Full JFS support - finally the LS2 has repair utils & kernel support in EM mode for a non ext3 fs!* ipv6 support (enabled, if you have a ipv6 router will just work)* Linux 2.6.22.19, busybox 1.10.1, vsftpd 2.0.6* Moved to uclibc instead of glibc* Partial localisation of web interface to German/Spanish

How to boot foonas-em from the hard drive on the LS2-lsmipsel (good in case you have one of the LS2's w/ the ST flash chip that won't currently accommodate foonas-em):We knew it could be done, just like we do on the LSPro's, and after Bauldrick testdrove it, we decided to write it down...

On a uboot-equipted LS2, while booted in linux, (openlink, freelink, foonas, whatever)..., cd to /boot and wget the latest (or desired) foonas-em image, then reboot...

Code:

cd /boot/wget [ insert the url of the latest foonas-em image for lsmipsel here - we assume its filename to be [b]vmlinuz.gz[/b] ]reboot

in your netconsole/netcat window, after stopping UBoot's bootprocess w/ an "s", enter the following commands:

OK, confirmed on a 2nd LS2 with the ST Micro chip... this should indicate that all LS2's, regardless of which ROM chip they have, should be flashable from within uboot. The vmlinuz.gz-ext4_tune2fs_fw-setwrite_inode-safe foonas-em custom image is available in my download folder - flash at your own risk.

I tried your new version of foonas-em, seem you got halt/reboot issue again, will you try to fix it? Also a strange thing that it works when I use tftp while when I flashed it into the ROM, it halted after loading the kernel. I can confirm the flash it successful after the cmp.o. ( now I flashed back to the old version of foonas and it works fine)

What about flagging foonas-em for mipsel stable on www.foonas.org? It still says "supported: soon" there, but I think we have at least 5 linkstations (2x davy_gravy, ramp, bauldrick and me) with the flash rom that once was the problem.

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